Polar Regions by digby Steve Benen: It's worth noting, from time to time, the practical and ideological problems with this approach to problem solving. The parties disagree -- as they should;...

Lies My Insurance Industry Told Me by dday I know I'm heartened by the news that Democrats plan to develop a plan to communicate on health care. Who thought of that, give him or her a cookie! ...

Blanket Pardons by digby Evidently, there's talk of Bush issuing a blanket pardon to anyone involved in his torture regime before he leaves office and Salon is also reporting that there are some plans afoot in the Obama camp to initiate a broad con...

Federal investigators probing the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks recovered samples of human hair from a mailbox in Princeton, N.J...

Nothing like deploying a bunch of cops on the streets of American cities, looking for marauding African Americans to help get out the vote:...

Saturday Night At The Movies The worst years of our lives By Dennis Hartley The bad news bearers: Harrelson and Foster in The Messenger Well, it took long enough. Someone has finally made a film that gets the harrowing national nightmare of the...

Protest At Your Own Risk by digby This is from last week's protests at UCLA: UCLA is no stranger to Taser Gun use. After a horrible video in 2006 surfaced of a student, who was already retrained by officers, being tasered several times, the school...

The Cow Is Over The Fence Again by digby If you missed Bill Moyers' Journal last night, I urge you to find the time to watch it or at least read the transcript: With an eye on President Obama’s deliberations on whether to deploy more U.S. troops...

Blanche by digby Blanche Lincoln has also generously decided to let the health care bill come to floor for debate today (which was more or less expected), but she seemed to promise that she will help the Republicans filibuster any bill that contains...

The Christianist Manifesto: A Partial Fisking by tristero Led by an admitted felon,* a bunch of extreme, but influential, christianists have released a rambling statement which they've pompously called "Manhattan Declaration." Get it? That's...